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The Emergence of Political Machines  

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  • cities experienced rapid growth due to the government in the 19th centry
• The Political Machine
  • the political machine was an organized group that controlled the activities of a political party in the city
    • also they o

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Taft Becomes President (Accomplishments)

- he becomes president in 1904 but he never wanted to be president

- his legal victories, such as busting 90 trusts in a four- year term

-he passed the Payne Bill, which was supp

Segregation & Discrimanation

African Americans Fight Legal Discrimination

Effected:

African Americans, Native Americans, Mexican residents, and Chinese immigrants

Voting Restrictions

  - In southern states blacks couldn't vote or had to be able to read an

We worked on our projects

IMPORTANT WORDS!!

Immigration- people from one country moving to another country.

Emigration- people from a country moving within that country.

Section 7-1

-most immigrants entered the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Workday..

Chapter 9 section 3:

Theodore unwanted
-Theodore Roosevelt was not supported to be president
-he was pushed to run as McKinley's vice president by political bosses and so that took him out of state office
-McKinley was assassinated which ma

Work Day!!!

Going to start working on the powerpoint and putting everything together.

Chapter 7 section 3

 Ch. 7.3

Define the Gilded age:  the excesses of the late 19th century in Mark Twains satirical novel called The Gilded Age

-- What was the